K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. Heck, it had to work, since we built it in close consultation with the customer.
viniciusvacanti.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
HIRE A PROGRAMMER - About 3 months after I left my job we finally decided we needed to do something until we could find a co-founder so we hired a programmer to do some HTML mockups. They were there for the job, not the startup. I still believe the guy writes great code but we just weren't getting anything useable out of him.
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The Next Web
DECEMBER 30, 2012
How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Codecademy.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings? How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].
The Next Web
JANUARY 27, 2013
Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. You’ve probably heard them far too often bragging about how close they are to signing customer X, who happens to be a publicly listed NASDAQ company. So far, they’ve passed the legal department of our customers without any problems.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Ability to sell and evangelize the idea to recruits, press, customers. did the question!
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. Customer data is normally partitioned according to customer id. What about log data about customers? For example, lets say you have data about customers. For example, consider this simple scheme. Easy to understand.
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